[Air-L] Registration for CaTaC¹14 now open

[Charles Ess]

Dear AoIRists,

Please cross-post and distribute as you can -

On behalf of Organizing Committee, we are happy to announce that
registration for CaTaC¹14 is now open:

<http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferenc
es/2014/catac-registration.html>

(Please note that those of you from North and South America will not be
able to register with a credit card; you will be asked to register as
indicated, and you will receive an invoice with further payment
instructions.)

Earlybird registration rates will be available through Friday, May 23,
2014.

The conference will take place on June 19th-20th, 2014, at the Department
of Informatics, Ole-Johan Dahls hus, University of Oslo (see:
<http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/>)


The program includes two keynote addresses:

Judith Simon (Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria;
Institute for Technology Assessment, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
Germany): "Trust, responsibility & transparency in IT design² (in
conjunction with the "Technology Design: Politics and ethics² track /
emphasis)
Andrew Feenberg (Canada Research Chair in the Philosophy of Technology,
School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada):
(provisional title) "The Internet in Question: a critical affirmation of
its democratic potential²

The final program will be available on the conference websites within the
next few days:

<http://www.catacconference.org/>
<http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferenc
es/2014/catac-conference.html>

We look forward to welcoming you to Oslo in June!


- Charles Ess (Media and Communication, University of Oslo) - co-organizer
Maja van der Velden (Informatics, University of Oslo) - co-organizer

Organizing Committee:
Herbert Hrachovec (Philosophy, University of Vienna)
Michele Strano, Program Chair (Communication Studies, Bridgewater College)
Leah Macfadyen (Evaluation and Learning Analytics, University of British
Columbia)